OQ #54

1. This scene is taken from a made-for-TV movie (that is according to a reviewer, "So bad it'll probably be a smash hit") directed by Mark Rosman. Identify the movie.

2. What place name derives from the Medieval Latin word for "beyond the forest"?

24/04/11

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Answers

OQ #53:

1. Paranthewali Gali, in Chandni Chowk.
part points to Meenakshi.

2. Mohun Bagan after defeating East Yorkshire Regiment 2-1 in the IFA shield in 1911
cracked by Two-D and Sivaram.

3. Deepak Chopra
Good crack by Meenakshi.

Why So Serious?

Kartik Shankar's quiz, which was conducted over a span of 2 CQC meetings.

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OQ #53

All questions contributed by Toodles.

1. Establishments founded by Pandit Gayaprasad Shivcharan (1872), Kanhaiyalal Durgaprasad Dikshit (1875) and Pandit Babu Ram Devi Dayal (1888) still survive of the original nine establishments that gave this location its name. These three outfits continue to draw tourists. Which location?

2. It is said that when the team was returning to the club with the Shield, a Brahmin pointed to the Union Jack atop the Fort William & asked - " When will that come down ? " Somebody replied that " It will come down when _________ _________ will win the shield again." It is probably coincidental that _______ ________ won it again in 1947, the year of Indian Independence.

Fill in the blank and identify the context.

3. In 1985, X met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who gave him an invitation to study Ayurveda. In that same year, X became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center for Stress Management and Behavioral Medicine. He was initially the sole stockholder of Maharishi Ayurveda Products International, but divested after three months. He has been called the Transcendental Meditation movement's "poster boy" and "its leading Ayurvedic physician". In 1989, the Maharishi gave him the title "Dhanvantari (Lord of Immortality), the keeper of perfect health for the world".

Who it is?

Answers

1. Yesteryear Bollywood actress Helen

cracked by Sivaram, Kartik, someone with no name, and Sundaram.

2.

Pic a: Wayne Cochran

Pic b: Pearl Jam

Last Kiss was an original single by Cochran, covered by Pearl Jam.

Surprised nobody got this.

3. Vilayanur Ramachandran describing the Phantom Limbs phenomenon (excerpt taken from his book Phantoms in the Brain).

cracked by Sticky, someone with no name, Sundaram and part pooints to Sivaram and Kartik.

OQ #52

1. Question contrib: Toodles

Her diplomat father went missing during World War II. She traveled to India with her mother Marlene Richardson and eventually made her breakthrough with a number titled 'Mr. John ya Baba Khan, Lala Roshandaan' in the film Baarish. Identify.

2. Question contrib: Jun

Connect the two pictures.

3. Question contrib: Toodles again

“I placed a coffee cup in front of John and asked him to grab it. Just as he said he was reaching out, I yanked the cup away. "Ow!" he yelled. "Don't do that!" "What's the matter?" "Don't do that", he repeated. "I had just got my fingers around the cup handle when you pulled it. That really hurts!" Hold on a minute. I wrench a real cup from _____ fingers and the person yells, ouch! The fingers were illusory, but the pain was real - indeed, so intense that I dared not repeat the experiment.”

Identify the observer of this experiment and what observation in neuroscience came about as a result?